What’s On TV Thursday

11 A.M. (FX) FLIGHT (2012) A veteran pilot (Denzel Washington, above, in an Oscar-nominated performance) manages to land a plane — at one point flying it upside down — after catastrophe strikes during a storm in this thriller from Robert Zemeckis. But his life takes a nose-dive when an inquiry reveals his lust for drinking and drugs, and suggests that he may not have been sober during his heroic feat. “He’s high as a kite, and you may be too, lifted by the contact high that great filmmaking gives you,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times. “It’s no surprise that ‘Flight’ has salvation in mind. The shock is how deep Mr. Zemeckis and Mr. Washington journey into the abyss and how long they stay there. It can be tough for stars to play such unrepentantly compromised characters, as Mr. Washington does brilliantly here.” And while “you can’t take your eyes off Mr. Washington,” who so normally excels at square-jaw decency, “this time you watch him with agony rather than just admiration.”

8 P.M. (FX Movie Channel) CAST AWAY (2000) Tom Hanks earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a FedEx employee stranded on a Pacific island for four years in this Robert Zemeckis survival tale. Helen Hunt is the girlfriend who never quite gives up hope. “At its best, ‘Cast Away,’ like ‘Titanic,’ awes us with its sheer oceanic sweep and its cosmic apprehension of human insignificance,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times.

8 P.M. (ABC) THE ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUB Betty Grissom (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) and Annie Glenn (Azure Parsons) prepare for their husbands’ missions into space. In “Mistresses,” at 9, Karen (Yunjin Kim) receives a house call from Alec (Ed Quinn) after a painful medical procedure. April (Rochelle Aytes) seeks legal counsel when an insurance company demands that she repay a settlement, while Marc (Rob Mayes) shares a secret of his own to help her through the predicament. And in the Season 6 opener of “Rookie Blue,” at 10, Andy (Missy Peregrym) is attacked during a home invasion.

8 P.M. (AMC) FIELD OF DREAMS (1989) Kevin Costner, left, plays Ray Kinsella, a farmer who builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield, where some ghostly men in old-time uniforms show up to play. One is Shoeless Joe Jackson, the greatest player on the Chicago White Sox team that threw the 1919 World Series. “The short route that has led to this point in ‘Field of Dreams’ goes to the heart of a work so smartly written, so beautifully filmed, so perfectly acted, that it does the almost impossible trick of turning sentimentality into true emotion,” Caryn James wrote in The Times. Ray Liotta makes Shoeless Joe “ethereal and real at once,” she added, “a relic of an earlier age much more than a ghost from the past.”

9 P.M. (CBS) UNDER THE DOME Season 3 begins as residents of Chester’s Mill show up both inside and outside the dome after being evacuated into the tunnels beneath the town. Marg Helgenberger and Eriq La Salle guest star.

9 P.M. (NBC) AQUARIUS Manson (Gethin Anthony) gives thanks after recovering from the beating he received from Hodiak (David Duchovny). Shafe (Grey Damon) tries to figure out who is harassing his family. In “Hannibal,” at 10, a disfigured Dr. Chilton (Raúl Esparza) decides to reel in Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen) by using Will (Hugh Dancy) as bait.

10 P.M. (FX) THE COMEDIANS Billy (Billy Crystal) overhears Josh (Josh Gad) and his friends making fun of him. At 10:30, they look to the future on the final day of shooting “The Billy & Josh Show.”

10 P.M. (A&E) AMERICAN TAKEDOWN Morgan Spurlock (“Super Size Me”) goes inside tactical law-enforcement units across the country, where the missions include taking down an insurance-fraud ring run out of a Florida chiropractor’s office and arresting a man suspected of breeding, training and selling dogs for fights in Tennessee.

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LGBT PRIDE MONTH PBS celebrates Pride Month — and the announcement of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen as the grand marshals of the New York City Pride March on Sunday — with films and series that explore lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender experiences in the United States and abroad. (pbs.org/specials/lgbt-pride-month) KATHRYN SHATTUCK